At Your Service: How do you check a car's mileage if you haven't got the history?

Graham Clark of Humberside is about to buy a 2006 BMW 320d and wants to check the mileage. The seller’s lost the paperwork and only has the current MoT. What should he do?

Quentin says: Go online to tinyurl.com/ MOTchecker. Using the MoT history check, enter the car’s registration and current MoT number and you’ll see all past MoTs, mileages, the name of the testing garage and any advisory faults. I use this free service all the time.